H.T. Chen receives 2009 Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture
- Presenter John Stamos, Awardee H.T. Chen, and NYC Mayor Bloomberg
H.T. Chen has been honored with the 2009 Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in a ceremony October 6 at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens.
Shanghai native H.T. Chen has had a tremendous impact on the Chinese American community and the New York dance scene for over 30 years. He has directed H.T. Chen and Dancers since 1979; a thriving Chinatown-based school founded in 1980; and the Chen Dance Center (formerly called the Mulberry Street Theater) which he founded in 1988.
Chen’s dance school offers arts training to hundreds of community youth, with free outreach workshops for those who cannot afford lessons. In collaboration with local businesses and city government agencies, the Chen organization has been of great help to many at-risk youth. One of their recent projects was a greening project that resulted in two dozen trees, flowering bushes and wild flowers along Mulberry and Bayard Streets.
Other 2009 honorees were Big Apple Circus, Jaynemarie Capetanakis of P.S. 69, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Vernon Reid, Thalia Spanish Theatre, and Jessye Norman.
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Topics: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, H.T. Chen, Thalia Spanish Theatre, Vernon Reid
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